Monday, January 25, 2010

Great Monday Give: The Lorax

Good morning kids. I've basically spent the weekend in bed with my fever-addled son reading books, watching movies and cajoling him to drink chocolate milkshakes in vain. (That's how I know he's REALLY sick.) We are a hour away from the doctor's appointment, so I wanted to get to the Great Monday Give quick before the remainder of my day is taken up waiting in the pharmacy lounge.

The Unless sign I mentioned a few months ago is on our almost daily walk to the coffee shop, and my son always stops and points it out then goes through all the things he remembers about The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. So, to celebrate this new tradition, I'm giving away an almost brand spanking new copy to one lucky reader. I only paid 49 cents for it, but except for the fact that I bought it at a thrift shop, you would never know it was loved (or not) before. To be entered to win, all you have to do is comment on this post before Sunday at midnight, January 31. A winner will be announced the next morning... in exactly the same fashion as I'm about to do now.

Last week's give, as you'll recall, was a copy of Blueberries for Sal. I used my patented and highly-scientific "Blind Scroll and Point Method" to select the winner. Let's give it up for Aparnature. Many thanks for reading and playing and congrats! Simply e-mail me your mailing info to webe(at)soon(dot)com. I'll ship it out as soon as the fever breaks. That's it for now. Bye-bye!

lORAX HA HA BUT this line is my fave from another book can you guess which one?'This is called teamwork. I furnish the brains. You furnish the muscles, the aches and the pains...( I had trouble getting to Solla Sollew!)

I love Dr. Seuss. It is my great sadness that I only found him as a teen (but, luckily wasn't too cool to love him right away). I plan on not letting the baby wait that long. I would love a copy of the Lorax! And I hope your boy feels better soon.

A friend and I frequently discuss books we'd like like to collect for our not-yet-existent children (she is already slowly stocking up). These collections, of course, are a lot of the very-classic children's books that we loved.

Seeing as she (like any sensible person) has always been a fan of Where The Wild Things Are -- especially the wild things themselves -- I was determined to show her Seven Little Monsters. Unfortunately, most search results came up with more recent renditions, rather than the original book; yet lo! A couple days ago while I finally came across some images from it--attached to your fantastic post about the book.

I've been reading through your blog since then. I can't even express how ridiculously overjoyed I was when I found it. It's reminded me of so many books and illustrators that I loved (my heart stopped when I got to the The Amazing Bone post and I saw the illustrations -- Steig's Abel's Island was a great turning point for me when I was small, and something I hadn't thought about in a very long time), and I've already discovered so many more through it.

I was totally gobsmacked to see that several people are not at all familiar with The Lorax, though; I hope one of them wins the giveaway. I can only imagine how amazing it would be to read it for the first time.

Always have loved this book but still don't have it yet for my kids (we have almost all of his books though) I let my kids watch the short movie of the book a few weeks back for the first time & they were glued to the screen. They asked if I could get the story for them. I'm on the lookout now for a secondhand copy. We have well over a thousand children's books. A good portion were mine from when I was a kid, bought at thrift stores or passed down from my mom whom is a teacher. Kinda silly I haven't gotten this one yet huh? No matter I adore your blog. Thanks for a fun giveaway.

With paernts who are 1st generation immigrants, I didn't get to read Dr. Seuss until I started babysitting beacause my mom always thought the illustrations were so "ugly". I have to set that straight with my son.

I love your blog! I had the happy coincidence of buying the Berenstain Bears Nature book on the same day as your post! And I couldn't agree more about the wonderful work of Williams & Brown! Thank you so much!

I waited until my son was 5 to read The Lorax to him. I wasn't sure he was ready to appreciate the message. He got it. He was in tears by the end and was inconsolable for quite some time thereafter. Everyone should read this book.